Petition to Rescind the "Generally Recognized as Safe" or
GRAS Status for Aluminum Based Food Additives

On September 14, 2005, the Department of the Planet Earth filed a petition requesting two actions by the Food and Drug Administration, as listed below.

1. FDA should rescind the "generally recognized as safe" or GRAS designation of aluminum food additives, because the evidence does not support it. The adverse human health consequences of FDA's GRAS designation for aluminum based food additives appear substantial.
2. FDA should investigate the interaction of aluminum with food additives like the food flavor maltol, tartrate, citrate, succinate, glutamate and other food products that may more efficiently increase aluminum's absorption from food, and propose remedies for this situation.

This petition and the accompanying review of evidence is available here as an Adobe PDF format download. (712 KB)

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